Here are two completely different photos for you. One of the promised completed mat named "Resettlement in Newfoundland" and one of today's labour.....Our first Potato Harvest. Yesterday was also a fairly busy day with making "English Bread & Butter Pickles" with the last of the cucumbers.......thought they would never stop growing..... also, 32 bottles of clams. Needless to say, I don't get much time for mat hooking, but after the meal this evening I WILL have a "spell" at the next one which is "Mummering"....an Outside Scene. I will post as I make some progress.
Oooooh Bread and butter pickles - a favorite. And bottled clams sound good too. You are always so busy, how do you find time to finish so many rugs??
ReplyDeleteLOL, Kim, when ALL the veggies are done, I will not look up from my mat hooking until Spring arrives and we get back to gardening, etc. again..It's a good life though....
ReplyDeleteKim, I don't think I answered your question.......I get up at six o'clock, grab a cuppa tea; hook until nine then around seven or eight I begin again and it may be twelve or one before I give up...sometimes canning goes into the night so I don't get to hook then.grrrrrr!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's alot of potatoes! Is this for the Kirby army only? Makes my little veggie garden look puny!
ReplyDeleteLove the mat, Anne!
Ha, Ha, Julie. We usually have about 20+ bags like this when finished. We have PLENTY for ourselves for one full year, from one crop to the next and have lots left to share with people who are generous to us. Like today, for instance, we have begun to can some more moose meat for another friend, this time on the Halves. BTW, how much onion soup mix did you put in each bottle? We are interested in trying that method. Ours {we did get 12 bottles out of the last lot} with onions are super.....At least you have a garden, plenty of people who COULD have one, don't. I have to admire people who try to help themselves....Pouring rain here today, sometimes mixed with snow...UGH!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Anne
ReplyDeleteI put about one heaping teaspoon in each bottle of moose. I used to put onions in but I like the onion soup mix much better...and great taste to the moose. Nice and sunny on the west coast but we had a skiff of snow earlier this morning...
My neighbour told me about the onion soup mix and I have used every since. I find fresh onions don't stand up to the test of time in the bottles...just me ?
Julie